The Evening Gazette is a newspaper serving the Teesside

Teesside

Teesside is the name given to the conurbation in the north east of England made up of the towns of Middlesbrough, Stockton-on-Tees, Redcar, Billingham and surrounding settlements near the River Tees. It was also the name of a local government district between 1968 and 1974—the County Borough of...

 area of England

England

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. It is published by the Gazette Media Company Ltd, which is a regional arm of the Trinity Mirror

Trinity Mirror

Trinity Mirror plc is a large British newspaper and magazine publisher. It is Britain's biggest newspaper group, publishing 240 regional papers as well as the national Daily Mirror, Sunday Mirror and People, and the Scottish Sunday Mail and Daily Record. Its headquarters are at Canary Wharf in...

 group. The Evening Gazette is written and published in Middlesbrough

Middlesbrough

Middlesbrough is a large town situated on the south bank of the River Tees in north east England, that sits within the ceremonial county of North Yorkshire...

, along with many other publications. The Gazette Media Company Ltd is also well-known locally for being the publisher of the free Herald & Post

Herald And Post (Teesside)

The Herald & Post is a free newspaper series published by the Evening Gazette in Teesside.The Herald & Post is a free weekly newspaper delivered to the majority of households in the Tees Valley area. There are six different editions of the Herald & Post published each week in order to make it...

 newspaper.

The Evening Gazette is the most popular daily newspaper in Teesside, and has been an integral part of life in the area since 1869, when it was founded as the North-Eastern Daily Gazette by the Scot

Scotland

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, and eventual Liberal

Liberal Party (UK)

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 Member of Parliament

Member of Parliament

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 for Aston Manor

Aston Manor

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, Hugh Gilzean Reid. It was also at this time, that a first premises were established on Zetland Road, Middlesbrough. It mainly provides local news, but also covers national, international and sports news as well as having various supplements relating to lifestyle, business, and events.

The current main Evening Gazette building is located on Borough Road in the centre of Middlesbrough. This houses the editorial staff as well as various operational departments such as advertising, production and finance. There is a further Gazette Media Company site on the Riverside Industrial Estate which houses the printing press.

There is also an educational centre at the Borough Road site, the Gazette Media Centre

Gazette Media Centre

The Gazette Media Centre was a modern educational facility which was part of the Gazette Media Company in Middlesbrough.The Gazette Media Centre used to house two ICT Suites and provide media-related training to various groups...

.

"The Pink"

Many local newspapers in the mid-20th century produced a special sports edition on Saturday evening. Before football results were widely available on television and radio such editions were the source of results for players of the football pools

Football pools

A football pool, often collectively referred to as "the pools", is a betting pool based on predicting the outcome of top-level association football matches set to take place in the coming week. The pools are typically cheap to enter, with the potential to win huge money. Entries were traditionally...

. Serious players needed the results as soon as possible since, on afternoons where there were relatively few matches ending in a draw, the payouts from the pools would be large and claims would have to be made quickly, typically by telegram

Telegraphy

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. While the regular evening edition typically "went to bed" in mid afternoon, if not earlier, the sports edition had to be on news stands as soon as possible after the conclusion of football games across the country. Most games started at 3 p.m. and concluded around 4:45 p.m. The sports edition was usually available by 6 p.m. It was popular with newsagent

Newsagent

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s who capitalized on the rush of customers its appearance generated to sell cigarettes and other "impulse buys". The edition was small compared to the regular edition, often as few as 3 broadsheet

Broadsheet

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s, making 12 pages when folded. Plenty of space was devoted to advertising, as well as lists of results and short descriptions of games.

In the 1960s the Gazette began printing the sports edition on pink newsprint

Newsprint

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. Soon the edition began to be known as "the Pink". To encourage people to buy the sports edition, at a time when television was affecting its sales, competitions were run "In the Pink" with cash prizes.

In a similar vein, a sports newspaper published in Sheffield

Sheffield

Sheffield is a city and metropolitan borough of South Yorkshire, England. Its name derives from the River Sheaf, which runs through the city. Historically a part of the West Riding of Yorkshire, and with some of its southern suburbs annexed from Derbyshire, the city has grown from its largely...

 is known as the "Green Un

Green Un

The Green 'Un is a Saturday sports paper published, on Saturday evenings, in Sheffield, England, its name deriving from the light green newsprint on which it has traditionally been printed....

" for the green newsprint used.

External links

• http://www.gazettelive.co.uk